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Autor: Thomas Hartman
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A: Eric Voskuil
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Assumpte: Re: [Libbitcoin] License - what about a truly free license (humble and extremely important enquiry for the project)
I suppose I would go with

sx --network=testnet3

Backwards compaible, with mainnet the default.

I would target getting sx working with testnet without recompiling, before
targetting sx for altcoins. I think it encompasses a lot of the same
issues, but more tractably.






On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Eric Voskuil <eric@???> wrote:

> The testnet option is compiled into libbitcoin, an sx dependency. It would
> be nice for this to instead be configurable.
>
> e
>
>
> On May 14, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Thomas Hartman <thomas@???>
> wrote:
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> I suppose
>
> sx --currency=litecoin
>
> with bitcoin default might work. This would be backwards compatible.
>
> That being said, to me, this is only a really attractive option if all the
> currency-specific code can be specified in an config file that is read at
> compile time.
>
> I suppose this would be things like the genesis block, and scrypt vs sha.
>
> Perhaps a similar mechanism could also be used to control whether testnet
> or mainnet is specified.
>
> Maybe there is a way to distinguish testnet/mainnet with sx already but I
> couldn't figure it out.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:26 AM, mlmikael <mlmikael@???>wrote:
>
>> /LICENSE , I missed the meaning of rows 31-34 from being stuck at rows 7,
>> 17, 19 and lost among the OpenSSL exception etc.
>>
>> If I'd have read the word "lesser" on /README row 2 first it I should
>> have had the context not to miss that.
>>
>>
>> LGPL for Debian devs, ok - it's like, Debian prefers LGPL packages for
>> some reasons so therefore consider relicense for everyone?
>>
>>
>>
>> Ok very well, now to practical priorities. Just in case you have any new
>> thoughts on Litecoin feel free to tell.
>>
>> How different do you feel they are with regard to console use, will
>> LibBitcoin operations for Litecoin be done using "sx -l" or by a new "lx"?
>>
>>
>> On 2014-05-13 23:04, Amir Taaki wrote:
>>
>>> yep, let me know where I can add this for clarity. Where did you look
>>> first? The README?
>>>
>>> BTW I might change the license to vanilla LGPL for Debian devs, but not
>>> before discussing with others here first. Thanks for all your input.
>>>
>>>
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